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road to Limerick, and on the river Shannon; contain-
ing 4724 inhabitants. The land is mostly in tillage;
there is some bog on the mountains. There are good
quarries of grit-stone, which is used extensively for
building. A slate quarry is worked at Ryninch; and
the Derry slate quarries, situated in this parish, were
formerly very extensively worked. Derry Castle, the
seat of M. P. Head, Esq., is situated in a noble demesne
abounding with remarkably fine old timber; the
scenery in its vicinity is extremely beautiful, and the
Shannon bounds the demesne on the west. The other
seats are Derry Ville, the residence of J. Salmon, Esq.;
Ryninch, of J. O’Brien, Esq.; Fort Henry, of Finch
White, Esq.; and Shannon View, of H. Franks, Esq.
It is a rectory and vicarage, in the diocese of Emly,
forming part of the union of Kilmastulla: the tithes
amount to £406.3.1. In the R. C. divisions it is the
head of a union or district, comprising this parish and
that of Kilmastulla, and called Ballina; in each of the
parishes is a chapel. There are six private schools, in
which are about 790 children, and a Sunday school.
On the Upper Killary mountain, a son of one of the
Kings of Leinster was buried: on an island in the
Shannon, opposite the ruins of the old church, are
some remains of a monastery; and on the north side
of the bridge at Ballina are the ruins of a castle,
built most probably to defend the passage of the
river.
TEMPLE-KIERAN, a parish, in the barony of
SKREEN, county of MEATH, and province of LEINSTER,
4 miles (S. E.) from Navan, near the mail-coach road
from Dublin to Enniskillen; containing 393 inhabitants.
This parish comprises, with the chapelry of Lismullen,
1957¾ statute acres of good land. It is a chapelry, in
the diocese of Meath, forming part of the union of
Skreen: the tithes, including those of Lismullen, amount
to £130. The church is a neat modern structure,
erected in 1811 by parochial assessment, and a loan of
£461 from the late Board of First Fruits. In the R. C.
divisions also it is part of the union or district of
Skreen.
TEMPLEMALY, a parish, in the barony of BUN-
RATTY, county of CLARE, and province of MUNSTER,
3½ miles (N.) from Ennis, near the road to Corofin;
containing 1554 inhabitants. This parish, which, though
only about one mile broad, is nearly five miles long,
comprises 3781 statute acres, as applotted under
the tithe act: within its limits are several lakes, and
about 100 acres of bog; one of the lakes, which abounds
with fish and contains a small island, is supposed to
have a subterraneous communication with another lake,
about a mile and a half distant. It is a rectory and
vicarage in the diocese of Killaloe; the rectory forming
part of the rectorial union of Ogashin, and the vicarage
part of the vicarial union of Dromcliffe. The tithes
amount to £105.16.9., of which £49.16.11. is pay-
able to the rector, and the remainder to the vicar.
There is a small glebe of about one acre. In the R. C.
divisions it is part of the union or district of Dowry, or
Doora. About 60 children are educated in a school
held in a house given rent-free by Mrs. Craven. The
ruins of the ancient church still exist.
TEMPLEMARTIN, a parish, in the barony of KIN-
ALMEAKY, county of CORK, and province of MUNSTER,
5 miles (N.) from Bandon, on the road from Kinsale to
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Macroom; containing 2730 inhabitants. It comprises
7423 statute acres, of which about 330 are common;
about one-tenth is pasture, one-twentieth bog (affording
a good supply of fuel), and the remainder under tillage,
being generally poor and stony ground. At Lisnegat
is a large power-loom factory for spinning cotton, em-
ploying about 100 persons. At Mosstown there was
formerly a distillery and it was subsequently a brewery,
but it has long been discontinued. Fairs are held at
Mossgrove on March 17th, Corpus-Christi day, Sept.
2nd, and Dec. 8th, chiefly for cattle. The gentlemen’s
seats are Mount Pleasant, the residence of H. Baldwin,
Esq., a handsome mansion on a commanding eminence
in a highly improved demesne; Gurrane, a newly
erected and handsome house, near the old family man-
sion, the residence of J. Splaine, Esq.; Mossgrove, of
S. Baldwin, Esq.; Scartnamuek, of B. Popham, Esq.;
Old Park, of H. Gillman, Esq.; and the glebe-house,
of the Rev. F. C. Sullivan. The. living is a rectory and
perpetual cure, in the diocese of Cork; the rectory
forming part of the union of Templebready and of the
corps of the deanery of St. Finbarr’s, Cork; the perpetual
curacy is in the gift of the Dean. The tithes amount to
£519, of which £500 is payable to the dean, and £19
to the perpetual curate, who also receives £30 per ann.
from Primate Boulter’s augmentation fund. The glebe-
house was built by aid of a gift of £450 and a loan of
£50, in 1815, from the late Board of First Fruits: the
glebe comprises 16¼ acres. The church is a plain build-
ing, with a square tower 50 feet high, erected by aid of
a gift of £500, in 1793, from the same Board. In the
R. C. divisions the parish is the head of a union or dis-
trict, comprising the parishes of Templemartin, Kil-
lowen, and part of Kilbrogan: the chapel is a small
plain edifice. The male and female parochial school,
in which are about 30 children, is aided by the dean
and local subscriptions, and has a house and an acre of
land rent-free from the Duke of Devonshire: there is
also a private school, in which are about 40 children,
and a Sunday school is superintended by the curate.
At Gurrane are the ruins of an old fortified mansion of
the Baldwins, who acquired the estate by purchase from
the Maskelyne family, in 1612: it appears to have been
surrounded by a wall, in the angles of which, and at
one end of the house, were round turrets three of which
are standing. A subterraneous passage leading from
the house to the adjacent bog is still visible, the en-
trance to which was by an aperture covered by the
hearth-stone of a room on the ground floor. There are
also many Danish raths in the parish, one on the lands
of Gurrane, including three acres, and surrounded by
three ramparts and a fosse; another at Castle-Lac,
where are four upright stones of clay-slate, respectively
12, 9, and 6 feet high; they are supposed to be druidi-
cal, or to have been erected to commemorate a victory
obtained here by the Danes in 968. On the same
ploughland was formerly a castle, now quite demo-
lished.
TEMPLEMARTIN, or ST. MARTIN, a parish, in the
barony of GOWRAN, county of KILKENNY, and province
of LEINSTER, 2¼ miles (E.) from Kilkenny, on the road
to Dublin; containing 17 inhabitants, and comprising
747 statute acres. It is a rectory and vicarage, in the
diocese of Ossory, entirely appropriate to the vicars
choral of the cathedral of St. Canice, Kilkenny; the